Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. In 1983, he came to the United States from Poland to pursue his PhD. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Adam's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of numerous successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Adam has been granted 10 patents for the technologies behind these innovative products.
Kolawa, co-author of Bulletproofing Web Applications (Hungry Minds 2001), has contributed to and written over 100 commentary pieces and technical articles for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Java Developer's Journal, SOA World Magazine, AJAXWorld Magazine; he has also authored numerous scientific papers on physics and parallel processing. His recent media engagements include CNN, CNBC, BBC, and NPR. Additionally he has presented on software quality, trends and development issues at various industry conferences. Kolawa holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the software category.
The creation and popularity of Web Services are growing rapidly in every
industry. With this continued growth, more and more programmers find
themselves writing code that, even if it's not currently packaged as a Web
Service, will eventually be exposed as one.
As more enterprises move toward an e-business strategy, communication and
integration of existing information systems is key. When integrating existing
information systems with Web Services, enterprises will usually face one of
the following two scenarios:
The enterprise information system is comprised of legacy systems. To offer
services and share data with business partners, customers, and other
information systems, businesses must update these legacy systems with current
technology and expose them as Web Servic... (more)
Software errors cause not only system functionality problems, but also
delayed releases, budget overruns, decreased development team productivity,
and blemished corporate reputations. Errors are especially serious when they
occur in code built upon WebSphere, which is typically at the core of
critical business systems. If errors occur so close to the core of a business
system, they will ... (more)
As more enterprises move toward an e-business strategy, the communication and
integration of disparate, heterogeneous applications and systems is key.
Businesses must be able to securely connect and communicate with customers
and trading partners alike.
Using Web services, different businesses and customers can communicate by
exchanging information through platform-independent protocols s... (more)
Garbage in, garbage out - it's an axiom that applies to many aspects of
enterprise development, but none more so than building reliable and robust
Web applications and integration projects with XML. Since its inception, XML
has been seen as the cure-all for every problem related to Web application
development. However, poorly written XML can either slow down an integration
project, or wo... (more)
I was introduced to Linux in 1992, when the first version was available. At
the time I was visiting Poland and my company was building an inventory
control system.
One of our partners had decided to use Linux to run their inventory system.
What led them to use this little-known operating system for a critical task
such as inventory control? Basically, they determined that it was their onl... (more)
Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. In 1983, he came to the United States from Poland to pursue his PhD. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Adam's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of numerous successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Adam has been granted 10 patents for the technologies behind these innovative products.
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